Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Tiago Da Cruz is a visual artist making work in and around the mediums of both Drawing and Photography. In 2022, Tiago received their BFA in photography with a minor in History of Art and Visual Culture from California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. Tiago is working through the language of queer abstraction making enlargements on gelatin silver paper that undergo cycles of inversion. He is interested in playing with photography through methods of inverting, saturating, softening, and exposing gelatin silver paper with solar and lunar light. By pointing his lens downward at micro landscapes and natural phenomena, the visual qualities of their work resemble constellations and structures of the cosmos. Tiago has shown work in groups shows at Root Division in San Francisco and recently at LAMAG in Los Angeles. Tiago currently is based in Los Angeles, California where he lives and works.   Contact: tiagodacruzstudio@gmail.com